As Foxy's article says "A cyclone and flooding in Bengal in 1942 triggered the famine.". It was exacerbated by the influx of millions from Burma seeking refuge from the Japanese.

Could the British government have done more to help? Possibly, its always theoretically possible to do more. But, and I'm not sure if I mentioned this or if you're aware of it, there was a war on.

Nice try mhaze, trying to add your "millions from Burma" nonsense to the facts.

mhaze,

You only quoted a small part of what the link I cited
earlier stated. Yes a cyclone and flooding in Bengal
in 1942 triggered the famine but it was the policies of
Winston Churchill and his Cabinet that are blamed for
making the situation worse. The entire link is worth
a read to grasp and understand the situation - including
Churchill's role in it.

Blamed by who Foxy. Any one blamed by the likes of Paul are likely to be as innocent as the new fallen snow.

I'm no fan of Churchill, I reckon he caused the deaths of as many empire troops as Hitler, but he should only be blamed for what he did, not what ratbag reds & other anti Brits want to blame him for.

Canem Malum: As always "the weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness".

That's not what a scientist would say. A claim only requires cleanly collected evidence. There's no sense of evidence having some quality of "extraordinarity" associated with it. And there is no sense of any claim, provided that it can potentially be scientifically falsified, being "strange".
If an experiment produces new clean evidence that is in accordance with a new theory and but contradicts the current theories then it just means current theories are either wrong or insufficient in their descriptions of the real world- but it doesn't mean the new theory is strange or odd.

Eg: if tomorrow a scientist could show with cleanly gathered statistically relevant evidence that some people have telepathic ability then that would settle the claim about whether it exists or not. No scientist would find such a discovery exotic/other worldly strange; if something is capable of being observed then it is a natural phenomena (more or less by definition).
The thing is, that to date, no scientist has yet ever produced such evidence for such a claim. So until someone does then we have no good reason to assign any truth to the claim.

The evidence is over 3 million Indians starved to death in the streets, and a fat drunken Churchill sitting in London. THAT'S THE EVIDENCE!